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Usage examples of stopple.

She lifted the decanter of Xerez, took out the stopple, and, with exaggerated care, refilled her glass.

Admiral Brencourt carefully replaced the glass stopple in the brandy decanter before he spoke again.

Sir Thomas went to the sideboard and extracted the glass stopple from the brandy decanter with lean, agile fingers.

I could forsake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious.

He figured she had found some calm just in telling to another person what a lonely thin edge of life she occupied, where one hog could act as stopple to a demijohn of woes.

Suddenly one tore the stopples from his ears and dashed over the barricade to the nearest women.

There were stopples in his ears to prevent aural distraction once he had started to speak.

I could forsake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious.

But remember, it will not keep quite till noonday even in the coolest cellar, but drive out the stopples long ere that and follow westward the steps of Aurora.

She held her breath, listened, but her ears might as well have been stoppled by a mile of ocean.

I have removed the central stopples from both ear pads and we have been talking, spell-and-grunt, killing time until you -- "

Before exiting myself I threw a screamer out onto the sidewalk and quickly pushed the stopples into my ears.